Abandoned Winter Beach C&C Welcomed

[KimC]

Hi Binnur. Nothing shot in landscape. What's displayed is the prettiest part of the scene. If you saw the rest, you would be surprised :-)

I like it Kim. The colors complement each other very well in the scene. I jusk ask to myself how the surroundings were when you shot this scene, because it seems that is is a nice and isolated area. I don't know if you have any shots in landscape format, because as far as I can see from the vertical one, the scene might also deserve a landscape format .

[KimC]

Ah, "arty", that's what I like to hear and makes me smile. Yes, I agree about that bright spot you mentioned (it is a cloud). Why is it you see such things AFTER you post them?

Great shot. Very arty. I like the way the grass is leaning with the wind and as others have said ......SNOW??.... On the beach? Never seen it.
The thing that catches my eye and that I'd try to crop or clone out is the bright bit of what I assume is cloud in the upper right border area.
But as I said at the start, great shot.

[KimC]

Marie, you are correct that the WB was modified. I wanted this to be a bit more artistic, so I played with a few things and yes the blue is brighter (was looking for just a smidge more pop.)

Dear Kim,

This is very nice. I like the portrait orientation.

How did you adjust the white balance? Contrast? The wood in the chair has a very slight blue cast that I can see. The sky also looks a bit turquoise rather than blue.

Marie

[KimC]

I did look to see if any shots had the grass different, and they were all similar. So no comparisons. Yes, I thought you would like that ISO Mike!

Agreed with all of the above with one slight exception: I would want to see an image providing separation between the top of the grasses and the bottom of the seat to be certain that I would like it more. I can easily imagine all of us reacting to it as if that little opening needs to be filled edge-to-edge with the grass.

Great to see use of such a low ISO value, Kim!

[KimC]

Thanks. I do have this in B&W if it will make you feel better Jack. The snow is melting this week.. more to go, but at least we can see the difference.

Kim, great shot of a winter beach scene. Now if you just turn it into a B&W, the snow will appear to be sand and I can convince myself that winter is finally over and me and the pup will be at the beach chasing sticks.

[KimC]

Hi Binnur. See my comment to Marie above about WB. I did put a very subtle vignette on the image as I wanted it a bit more artistic overall.

Kim, I can't see any color cast in the image but may be my monitor is not a calibrated one and that's why I can't see.The white balance looks good to me with no color cast. I think you have a very slight vignette caused by your lens at the top corners of the image and that's why the color of the sky looks more saturated at those corners. It can be fixed with PP very easily.

[KimC]

I thought you might all like to see how FROZEN it was in New England this year. This is an "ocean bay" on Cape Cod - totally frozen. It was prob a once in a lifetime sight. Conditions were not the best to shot this, but it was worth it for documentation purposes as it was AMAZING!